"Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for a short time," the company said in a statement. "We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We're sorry for the inconvenience."A

Sgt. Burton Brink from the LA County Sheriff's Department amused Twitter users with a tweet that appeared to indicate that people were reporting the outage to authorities. "#Facebook is not a Law Enforment issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!" he said in the Twitter rant.

Capt. Britta Steinbrenner later disputed the claim and said her office was not aware of any 911 calls about Facebook.

#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!

It was the second recent outage. Facebook went down in June in a disruption that appeared to stretch across the world as users from the United Kingdom to India reported no service. In that instance, service came back for some in less than an hour.

Facebook said it had 1.32 billion users worldwide as of the end of June.